Credits
Image credits & copyright
Where our pictures and data come from, and who owns what.
Copyright notice
© 2026 Randy L. Losey. All rights reserved. The original text, summaries, history writing, page design, code and graphics of World Space Launch are owned by Randy L. Losey. You may link to any page. Please do not republish the site's original content without permission.
News headlines are shown as link text to identify each story; the headlines and the linked articles belong to their publishers. Launch schedule facts are provided by Launch Library 2.
Images
Except for the personal photo of Randy L. Losey on the About page (© Randy L. Losey, not public domain), all photographs on this site are from the NASA Image and Video Library. NASA photographs are generally not protected by copyright in the United States. Following NASA's media usage guidelines, NASA is credited and nothing on this site implies endorsement by NASA. The NASA insignia (the "meatball") is not used. The site logo and icons are original artwork.
| Image | Description | Credit | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission 1969-07-16 | NASA | S69-39957 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Apollo 11 S-IC stage separation, photographed from a U.S. Air Force EC-135N aircraft with the ALOTS tracking camera 1969-07-16 | NASA / U.S. Air Force | S69-39958 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Apollo 11 Saturn V rolls out to Launch Complex 39A 1969-05-20 | NASA | KSC-69P-372 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Launch of Friendship 7, John Glenn's orbital flight, from Pad 14 1962-02-20 | NASA | KSC-62PC-0011 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Gemini-Titan 4 lifts off from Cape Kennedy Pad 19 1965-06-03 | NASA | S65-29639 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Earthrise photographed by the Apollo 8 crew in lunar orbit 1968-12-24 | NASA | as08-14-2383 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | The Blue Marble: Earth photographed by the Apollo 17 crew 1972-12-07 | NASA | as17-148-22727 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Skylab space station in Earth orbit, seen from the Skylab 4 command module 1974-02-08 | NASA | sl4-143-4707 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-1 1981-04-12 | NASA | S81-30460 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | The International Space Station photographed from Space Shuttle Atlantis after undocking, STS-132 2010-05-23 | NASA | s132e012208 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Sunrise over Earth's limb, photographed by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the ISS 2014-07-26 | NASA | iss040e080833 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Falcon 9 launches NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission from Launch Complex 39A 2020-11-15 | NASA/Joel Kowsky | NHQ202011150023 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | NASA's Space Launch System rocket lifts off on Artemis I 2022-11-16 | NASA/Joel Kowsky | NHQ202211160030 ↗ | Public domain (U.S. Government work) |
 | Randy L. Losey, ARIA crewmember, at the ARIA mission electronics station (About page) | Randy L. Losey | Personal photo | © Randy L. Losey. All rights reserved. Not public domain; may not be reused without permission. |
Data sources
- Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs: launch schedules, vehicles, pads and results.
- Spaceflight News API by The Space Devs: discovery of news articles, which are then summarized in our own words.
- History: public records from NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the National Museum of the United States Air Force and other agencies, written up in our own words.
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